--- title: “Help Dorothy to kill the Wicked Witch of the West,” replied the Bea… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: “Help Dorothy to kill the Wicked Witch of the West,” replied the Beast. Who acts: Dorothy, Beast. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/13/150/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Wonderful Wizard of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/) / [Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/13/) / 150 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 150 “Help Dorothy to kill the Wicked Witch of the West,” replied the Beast. **Who acts:** Dorothy, Beast · **What happens:** help, kill, reply · **To what, where:** Dorothy, Wicked Witch · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dorothy, Beast), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg55:13:150 # text = “Help Dorothy to kill the Wicked Witch of the West,” replied the Beast. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 3 Dorothy Dorothy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 Wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 Witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 West West PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 14 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Beast Beast PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** *in a quote* | infinitive | | Dorothy | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent dorothy=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 2 | **kill** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Dorothy *not said here* | the Wicked Witch of the West | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Theme | | 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the Beast | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Project Gutenberg book 55 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 149](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/13/149/) - next →: [sentence 151](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/13/151/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/13/)